2017
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Summit on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism
Summit 7-8 February 2017 Introduction The issue of organ trafficking has been a concern of the World Health Organization (WHO) for three decades, expressed initially in 1987, but reaffirmed by the... Read more -
Food Values: The Renaissance of the Mediterranean Diet and its Significance for a 21st Century World
Workshop 14 February 2017 Introduction Over the last few decades a considerable body of evidence has been published demonstrating the relationship between diet and health. Many studies have evaluated... Read more -
The Human Right to Water
Workshop 23-24 February 2017 - Aristoteles tells us that, according to Thales of Miletus “water is the beginning of everything”. This Greek intuition has been confirmed by modern science that... Read more -
Biological Extinction
How to Save the Natural World on Which We Depend PAS-PASS Workshop, Casina Pio IV, 27 February-1 March 2017 On our 4.54 billion... Read more -
Sharing models and best practices to end modern slavery and restore dignity to its victims
Workshop Malta, 13-14 June 2017 CONCEPT NOTE Following a wish of Pope Francis to study and eradicate modern slavery in terms of human trafficking, forced labour, prostitution and organ trafficking,... Read more -
Connectivity as a Human Right
Workshop 10 October 2017 - As the world’s primary means of enabling learning, delivering knowledge, providing health care, enhancing agriculture, saving the environment, creating jobs, and... Read more -
Cell Biology and Genetics
Workshop 23-24 October 2017 - The PAS Workshop on Cell Biology and Genetics will bring together a group of scientists from the Pontifical Academy and the Academia de Ciencias de América Latina... Read more -
Health of People and Planet: Our Responsibility
Workshop 2-4 November 2017 - Over the last three years, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (PAS) and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (PASS) have held a series of meetings related to the... Read more -
Women Judges and Prosecutors on Human Trafficking and Organized Crime
Summit 9-10 November 2017 - This meeting has been called under the conviction that modern slavery, in the forms of forced labour, prostitution and organ trafficking, is a crime against humanity and... Read more
